Among our target audience, the primary booking tool is a spreadsheet, either in Excel or in Google Docs for multi-user setups. So, what are our advantages:

• The main one: online always up-to-date availability calendar
  • This will save a lot of your time, just answering the phone and often having to call back if you are not next your calendar.
  • Improved customer payment practices, if you keep their booking in calendar as “unconfirmed”.
  • It is specialised for booking, not for everything. So you cannot type anyting funny in a date field, as you could in Excel.
  • E-mail reminders of expiring bookings
  • Check out the functionality page and you’ll see that most of it is at least hard to do with a spreadsheet.
• Compared to a Excel spreadsheet in your computer, the advantages are also: backup, multi-user.

To help you make a balanced decision, here are the shortcomings compared to spreadsheets:

• You cannot see it if you lose internet connection. Well, you can print the list out or save it to your computer from time to time.
• You may miss some generic editing functions: formatting, etc.